[Occupymendocino] ACT NOW: Say No To Gas Export

[agnes at mcn.org]

> *Stop Jordan Cove!* [
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> Let decision-makers know they should reject this climate-disrupting
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> A Canadian company has proposed a *230-mile pipeline to export fracked
> gas* from Canada and the Rocky Mountain states through Coos Bay, Oregon.
> If built, the Jordan Cove [ http://rogueriverkeeper.org/lng ] export
> terminal would be constructed on a sand spit that is vulnerable to
> tsunamis and earthquakes. In addition to a variety of safety concerns, the
> project would push us further into climate chaos.
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> When Oregon's lone coal plant shuts down in 2020, *the Jordan Cove gas
> export project would be the single largest greenhouse gas source in the
> state, and the first LNG export facility on the west coast**.* Exporting
> gas to new markets would accelerate hazardous and dirty fracking across
> several western states, and set back national efforts to address climate
> change.
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> The project would have tremendous impacts ranging from the threat of
> eminent domain for hundreds of landowners, to fragmenting important
> habitat for imperiled wildlife species. The proposal includes *a 36"
> pipeline that would cross 400 different waterways, remove streamside
> forests, dump fish-suffocating sediment* into streams that are critical
> habitat for imperiled salmon, and would require *extensive dredging* in
> the sensitive Coos Bay estuary. Additionally, exporting gas from Oregon
> would *raise gas prices *for Americans and *further entrench us in a
> fossil fuel economy* when the renewable energy sector creates more jobs
> for the same amount of investment.
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> *TAKE ACTION: Send a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
> and urge them to deny the Jordan Cove project. [
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> ] Together, we can protect our communities and waterways from climate
> chaos! [
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